# Building a New Database Management System in Academia

DevFeed: [Building a New Database Management System in Academia](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-a-new-database-management-system-in-academia-33707.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2017/03/building-a-new-database-management-system-in-academia.html>)

Author: Andy Pavlo

Published: 2017-03-21T01:54:17Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/andy-pavlo-carnegie-mellon-university.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>)

## AI overview

Andy Pavlo discusses whether academia can build a new database management system, describing his group's planned open-source DBMS project and the challenges involved. He reports that using PostgreSQL as a starting point was too slow for in-memory OLTP and outlines the substantial infrastructure required to build a DBMS from scratch.

## Source excerpt

Andy muses over whether it is possible to build a DBMS in academia and on using Postgres as a starting point.